What is "hospitable"

Usage examples of "hospitable".

Bernardino, wine-seller, and alcade of this most Christian and hospitable village, who will find you one.

It would have been churlish to refuse this invitation which was in the true spirit of French politeness, so leaving Clairmont in charge Marcoline and I began to wend our way towards the hospitable abode.

That evening, when the ill-matched party of four met for supper at the Cle Argente, the comfortable inn near the cathedral where they had been lodging, Buckthorn and Silverwood proposed an evening of cards and music at the house of the tirelessly hospitable Monsieur Bouvin, whose acquaintance they had recently made.

Clans whose suspicion toward outsiders had always been high, who with the carnage and devastation of the Third Eldership War fresh in their minds would have been even less hospitable toward strangers than usual.

It was a shame for Eron and Ixti both to be so constrained when there were vast, empty, hospitable spaces available to the west.

Tower Lands, a wall of mountains separating the hospitable regions of Kaf from the whistling desert, and gazed below.

An Oti can osmose through matter without trouble or danger, if it exists in a medium hospitable to his life-form.

To make up for the time he had lost with the hospitable citizens of Helena, Boyton was compelled to make an extra long run and he paddled to Arkansas City without leaving the water, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles in thirty one hours, which was the longest continuous run he ever made up to that time.

The ranchman, who is half-hunter, half-stockman, and his wife are jovial, hearty Welsh people from Llanberis, who laugh with loud, cheery British laughs, sing in parts down to the youngest child, are free hearted and hospitable, and pile the pitch-pine logs half-way up the great rude chimney.

The ample patrimonies, which many senatorian families possessed in Africa, invited them, if they had time, and prudence, to escape from the ruin of their country, to embrace the shelter of that hospitable province.

Their welcome was courteous and sincere, their attention to the Signatory hospitable and gentle.

Master Jeremy Sparrow, relieved of his battered armor, his face wreathed with hospitable smiles, and a posy in his hand.

The prospect of immediate relief and of future protection allured into its hospitable bosom many of those unhappy persons whom the neglect of the world would have abandoned to the miseries of want, of sickness, and of old age.

Harpells have truly earned their hospitable reputation, and the wonders of Longsaddle will show you a side of magic you never expected.

My worthy booksellers and friends, Messieurs Dilly in the Poultry, at whose hospitable and well-covered table I have seen a greater number of literary men, than at any other, except that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, had invited me to meet Mr.